Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-12-07

brothers) were killed while chopping wood
near Paris, Tex. Two negroes had besn ar
rested on suspicion. III
ADvIcEs OF the LIST from Fort Smith, Ark,
say that within four days seven murders
had been committed in the Choctaw nation.
In his annual report ON the LIST the Com
missioner Of Agriculture Isays that the work
of his department. In suppressing pneu-.
! m0nia among cattle progressed fav0rably
during the year, and he believes that this
| dangerous plague can be exterminated by
| the end Of the next fiscal year
DR. GEORGE SCHRADY, of New York, who
attended General Grant during his last Ill
ness, said on the LIST that there could be no
doubt that the disease from which the
| Crown Prince of Germany is suffering is Of
q cancer0us nature.
| TIE public-deb. statement on the LIST
shows the total debt to be 1,675, SIG, ego;
cash In treasury, 1855, 25S, 7O1; debt less
cash In treasury, $1,24O, 1879, O52 Increase
during November, 81, 49O,35O Decrease.
since June 80, 1887. $3.50, 245, 684. IS
An excursion Of $50 BcandiMavlans from
the Northwest, on route to tho old country,
stopped in Chicago on the 1st
The Lawrence Hotel, six business houses
and three dwellings were burned at Brook
vile, Kan. on the 1st and four men per-
ished In the flames
THE annual report of the Comptroller of
the currency, Issued on the 1st shows that
the total number Of National banks organ
lied up to October 81 was 3,8O5, of which
625 had gone into voluntary liquidation and
119 had failed, leaving in operation at that
date 3,O6L
JAMES YANox, of Scott County, Ark, ran
away with his employers wife to Indian
Territory. The couple were overtaken by
the irate husband ON the LIST and fight
took place, in which both men were NOR
tally wounded. -
A BRONZE statue Of President Garfield was
unvailed on the LIST at Cincinnati, the mill
tia and soldiers societies taking part in the
parade. Governor Foraker and others made
addressed &%s4-> ~ ~ =
CHARLES PRATT on the LIST declared to be
unfounded report that the Standard Oh
Company contemplated building q trunk
pipeline from Chicago to New York
A TRAMP named O'Brien, who was lmpris-
sault upon a young woman of that city, was
taken from jail on the LIST and lynched.r -,
The new stock yards Mt St Joseph, No. :
comprising 44O acres, were opened on the
LIST They cost 81 600, 900, and are said to
be complete in every detail
Two NEGROES were killed and MANY others
were injured in a fight with whites at Cat
Island, Ark, on the lst The unfor.unates
had been arrested charged with insulting
white women and at the trial were shot
down
JACOB SHARP, the New York briber, was
released from custody on the LIST under
bonds of $40, 600
IT was reported on the LIST that the big
gas wells in the northwestern part of Ohio
were losing their pressure and turning to
oil wells The news created CONSERVATION
at Toledo, where natural gas Is largely used
for heating purposes
ALEXANDER TAYLOR, who has been in the
country six weeks, and has been driving q
mail wagon three weeks, was arreated on
the LIST In New York for robbing the mails,
and confessed his guilt The drafts he pur-
Joined aggregated $4,000
THREE train-robbers' caves, full of stolen
property, were discovered near Ell Paso,
Tex. on the I'd by United States ofnciala
NEARLY The entire business portion of
Eminence, KY. was destroyed by fire on
the I'd. s,' s.2.s4g ~s5 3. .....
THE Kirkham l. Olmstead block at Spring.
Loss, 100000
SOME of the MASTERS in Milwaukee, Wis,
withdrew from the union on the I'd and
returned to work in their old places The
strike was practically at an end
By the explosion of q locomotive boiler
on the I'd near East Mahanoy Junction, Pa,
four men were killed
In the trial of John Arensdorf at Sioux
City, La, on the I'd for the murder of Rev. G.
G. Haddock,. Byron Webster, a deputy rev.
enue collector, swore positively that Arens-
dorf was not in the Shepherd saloon at
the time of the murder. This testimony
refutes that of Arensdorf Hagenan and
Carson, by which an alibi was sought to be
proved
Two CASES of leprosy of the most loath-
some type were discovered on the I'd at
Rathsay, MINI
In Darlington County, s. c., on the I'd
John Edwards, aged eighteen years, ordered
his father, Fred Edwards. to stop beating
his mother Not being obeyed he shot at
him with gun, killing his mother, fatally
wounding his sister and slightly hurting his
father. ~ =, !
TIE cotton crop for this year is estimated
at 6, 48O. 600 bales ......-,
TIE story that foreigners chiefly con-
disproved by statistics, which show that OF
the 15,435 people engaged 10000 are
Americans
DURING the seven days ended on tho I'd
there were 215 business failures in the
United States, against 2O5 the previous
seven days
JAKE s1xoNs (colored) was hanged ON the
I'd at Mount Pleasant, g c., for the murder
of Mike Plottldn, a Jewish merchant 49,
LEVI KELLER, aged sixty three years. and
his wife, aged sixty years, residing at Vir-
ginsville, Pa, died on the ID within two
minutes of each other Keller, several
weeks ago, predicted that they would both
die when they did . ...,..~ -.
JUMPING Doc. the Indian arrested for set
ting fire to the Cheyenne agency, killed his
two guards ON the I'd and then committed
suicide. .....s ..,.... -.
THE first annual report of the Inter State
Commerce Commission was made publi6 on
the ID The report says that the operation
of the law has in general been beneficial;
complaints Of unjust discrimination by
railways are less frequent; the pooling Of
freights and of railway earnings has come
to an end, and, az rule, obedience to tho